Re: Learning C++
"Sherm Pendley" <spamtrap@shermpendley.com>
I'm eighteen. I grew up on a Unix prompt
There are exceptions to every rule. You're a geek. So am I. The fact
that we're here on usenet instead of something trendy like Facebook
or MySpazz, pretty much proves that we're not normal. :-)
When you're teaching a class though, you can't develop the curriculum
based solely on the needs of the quickest kid in class - you'd lose the
majority if you did that. On the other hand, if I were teaching a C++
class, I'd teach it using VS, but if an advanced student wanted to use
something else, I'd let them.
And most programmer kids these days use Linux, and I'm sure many of
them will agree with me.
I' doubt on the "most" part, but anyway, that is pretty clearly a simple
childish group-creting and showing-off behavior that has nothing to do with
professional programming whatsoever.
Teenagers just must do a lot of things differently, don't they? And have a
strong built-in belief that that way is cooler and superior, to the common
one.
It is interesting, yhat for many cases the youngsters have an actual edge --
using *new* technology naturally as while the old folks stick to gadgets of
prevus decades, having problems with the new.
This case is quite the opposite: the 30-year old archaic **** is preferred
to the 10-year old one.
Whereas with a text-based system, you just run one command
Good evidence poresented hete in the previous post: someone is so high up
with himself so brags about inability to even find out how ho launch a
command prompt when he needs one. And the soulution is supposed to be to
strip everyone of the interface with a choice -- to present him the command
line and nothing else.
The king has no clothes, whatsoever. Just our broken society thinks its
is impolite to point out. :-/
I think you're underestimating how foreign and intimidating a command-
line is to most people - again, I'm talking about the majority here,
not just a few exceptionally talented and motivated "programmer kids."
What misses the point by a lightyear. Real talented "programmer kids" have
no need of a programming school whatsoever, and will not benefit there
anything. They an learn the stuff from real practicioners or the "scene",
or do whatever they like at home.
And if there is a class like that in high-school or uni, they can side-step
it after a single talk with the teacher. Or if they chose to attend, can
complete any assignment in zero time.
If there is a complaint, of "how I couln't" it is a clear indication facing
a fake/whiner. I recalling the scene -- "I can't do" was a thing you
never heard. It was about "see what I did" on one side, and paying close
attention of the others.
To most folks, "just run one command" is technobabble that makes no
more sense to them than "just adjust the phase harmonics of the shield
generator" would make.
Indeed, however those who uinderstand the technobabble can point out that
the claims are false -- and the babble serves only this obfuscating purpose
that works well only with the outsiders.
Trying the same bullshitting in a pro forum does not indicate a high WIS
allocation.
sherm--